U.S. lawmakers set bill seeking to control Trump on tariffs: key lawmaker

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters




JUNE 5, 2018 / 12:30 PM / UPDATED 28 MINUTES AGO

Reuters Staff

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. senators plan to introduce as soon as Tuesday legislation that would force President Donald Trump, or any U.S. president, to obtain congressional approval before imposing tariffs on national security grounds, a senior senator said on Tuesday.

Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters legislation would be introduced on Tuesday or Wednesday that would pare back the president’s authority under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.

The measure came after Trump decided last month to open a trade investigation into whether auto imports had damaged the U.S. auto industry, which could lead to tariffs of up to 25 percent on “national security grounds.”

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Senators to introduce bill to rein in Trump's tariff authority

BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 06/05/18 12:21 PM EDT

Senators are planning to introduce legislation as soon as Tuesday to require President Trump to get congressional approval for tariffs implemented for national security purposes.

GOP Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.), who is spearheading the legislation, told reporters that he will roll out the bill as early as Tuesday and wants to try to get it attached to a defense policy bill that the Senate will start work on later this week.

“If a president decided he was going to invoke 232 and declare something a national security threat he would still go through all the processes he goes through now but, in the end, Congress will have to approve it,” Corker said.

Under the bill, Corker said, a vote on approving tariffs invoked under Section 232 of the trade law could be expedited through Congress. The bill, if it gets signed into law, would also be retroactive going back two years.

Corker, who is retiring at the end of his term, declined to say who is backing his bill, which he noted could slip to Wednesday morning, but said he had support from senators on both sides of the aisle.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. The actions of the traitor are being directed by Putin, these tariffs benefit Putin.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. And rump is using threat to natl security grounds to ...

advocate (despite the free market dictating otherwise) increased use of coal, and other idiotic things that he's come up w/.

This is plain and simple abuse of this claim of threat to natl security on a repeated basis.

Corker should add that such claims by any admin. (present and future) be thoroughly documented and proven, before any such unilateral actions by the president can be enacted.